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The wishes expressed to her were perfectly rational, reasonable and of natural importance." The clerk, Wright, attests the accuracy of Mrs.Claughton's description of Mr.Howard, whom he knew, and the correspondence of her dates with those in the parish register and on the graves, which he found for her at her request.

Mr.Myers, "from a very partial knowledge" of what the Meresby ghosts' business was, thinks the reasons for not revealing this matter "entirely sufficient".

The ghosts' messages to survivors "effected the intended results," says Mrs.Claughton.
* * * * * Of this story the only conceivable natural explanation is that Mrs.
Claughton, to serve her private ends, paid secret preliminary visits to Meresby, "got up" there a number of minute facts, chose a haunted house at the other end of England as a first scene in her little drama, and made the rest of the troublesome journeys, not to mention the uncomfortable visit to a dark church at midnight, and did all this from a hysterical love of notoriety.